Chapitre 4: Chapter 6
A small breath of air escapes from Joyce's mouth as she turns her head to come face to face with Yolanda.
"Joyce, you shouldn't be back here, I want you covering the front now." Joyce turns to walk away like a dog with her tail between her legs. Gosh she's so annoying, Yolanda says, lifting me from my thoughts "She is annoying, but why does she hate you so much?"
I look down at the floor, "She hates me because I…" moving my eyes to meet Yola's eyes. "Not to gossip, but Joyce and the last manager— I pegged them as a couple. Fei and I knew about it and he quit here so they could be together."
Yolanda's eyes grow big and she walks closer to me, "Wow, I never thought she would be a rule breaker."
"Please don't fire her for what I said."
She places a hand on my shoulder, "She treats you like shit, and yet you still want her to have a job."
"Her and I always had some sort of a negative relationship. But I don't want anything bad to happen to her; they say that when you dig a ditch you make two. One for that person and another for yourself."
A small breath of air escapes from her mouth, "You are a truly kind individual. Some people would've taken the chance to get that person out."
A nod my head saying, "Yeah. I can't lie, the thought has come to me— on more than one occasion."
We laugh together, "That's more like it. If there's anything that I like about you and that is your honesty to pieces of your dark side."
"Well" a breath of air escapes from my lips, "it's all about honesty, a principle I try to live by everyday." Pausing for a moment, Aquila pops into my head.I stop setting up the croissants while "Although… some dark sides are better left unmentioned."
A small sigh escapes from Yolanda, she places her hand on my shoulder, "Cheer up kiddo, don't be so hard on yourself. Life is way too hard for that shit."
We laugh together, she removes her hand from off my shoulder and begins to walk out of the kitchen saying, "For what it's worth, whatever darkside you're trying to battle don't… don't let it break you down." a small smile plays on her mouth. "I now have to go and help Joyce out front, but you'll be okay back here?"
I nod my head, "Yes, I'll be good back here." I said as I got back to setting up the croissants on a cookie sheet. For a moment I stop what I'm doing to watch her retreating back walk out of the kitchen to the front to help Joyce.
'Stop thinking about Aquila, it's not your fault. It's just that, I know that Fei isn't wrong but it's these feelings of guilt that always gets to me everytime.' I think to myself, "Shit." I said quietly to myself as I slammed my hand lightly on the table. 'I have to shake these feelings, otherwise I'm always going to find myself in these senseless loopholes of emotions. A breath of air escapes from my mouth, as I take the cookie sheet and place it on the silver rack.
The night continues on as Hannah and I start cleaning up the store and as I'm cleaning out the sink, suddenly I hear the door open and bell jingles. Hannah says to the guest, "Hi! Good evening sir, there's only ten more minutes till we close okay."
"Okay." A familiar voice says.
I turned around to face him saying, "And here I thought I'd see you tomorrow."
"Change of plans— I guess. But I would like to get a large coffee— please?"
"No need to say please," I grabbed a large cup from out of the cup dispenser. "So what brings you back to our little coffee shop?"
"The coffee, it's to die for, how's that?"
"No, other special reasons like; telling me your name." I said while handing him the coffee across the counter.
A wide grin graces his face as he extends his hand across the counter, placing his hand over mine to grab the cup. "You're cute." I let go of my hold on the cup, he laughs while grabbing his and walks to the door, "Come to work tomorrow and I'll tell you then." He says while he opens the door and leaves.
Jaws opened wide, "Okay who's that?" Hannah says to me.
A small grin graces my face, "I don't know. He just came in one day and the rest is history as the old story goes." I said as I grabbed the tank of coffee to clean it out. Hannah leaves the counter to lock the door and turn the sign around from open to close. She walks to the back, where I'm cleaning up the coffee pots while she starts to clean the floors behind the bakery side saying, "For real, for real who is the sexy and cryptic guy?"
"I don't know, really Hannah."
"Okay." she says looking over at me to the side. We continued to clean up until eight forty-five when we locked up the store and went our separate ways. Walking in through the front door of my apartment Fei says, while sitting on the couch in the living room. "Hey, girlfriend, how was your evening at work?"
Taking my shoes off by the door and walking closer to the living room saying, "It was good, and guess who paid me a visit today?"
She squinted her eyes saying, "Mmmh-- is it the ocean blue eyed, dark hair beauty from two nights ago."
"How'd you know?"
Fei, chuckles while staring at me, "That smile and glow on your face is uncanny."
A small laugh escapes from my mouth, "I don't have a glow."
Her lips made into a thin line while raising an eyebrow my way, Fei says as I walk into the living room to sit down on the ottoman, "Sure you don't," she says while folding her legs on the couch, "so tell me the goods; I want to hear everything."
"Well, today he came in twice." Both of her eyebrows rise and a small breath of air escapes from her mouth. " So the first time he was getting coffee and he said my name and the second time he was being very mysterious. But oddly enough he told me that if I come in tomorrow he would tell me his name."
"Oh my gosh, really?" She leans over to give me a tap on the shoulder, "Check you out. I would never have thought that you above all people would never date or like a white guy."
"I'm a black woman that keeps her options open. Some black are broken from themselves and society, another thing is I can say the same thing about black women but the difference is that some of us don't stay there. Black women try to lift up black men but they carry on self-hatred, mommy issues etcetera— it's too much sometimes"
"I hear what you mean. My friend who just got back to Taiwan, she followed her boyfriend to New York and she found out that he fell back into his old bullshit. Like she picked him up, stuck by him the whole bit. She got the guy clean and he just went into shambles and she dumped him."
I take a deep breath, "It's funny that you say that, because a YouTube influencer made this video a couple of months back about black men and how even the racially ambiguous, white and even the Asian girls don't want to date black guys like that. Because even they are getting tired of it all, with black men."
Fei and I laughed, continuing to say, "What's even more interesting is the fact that a black man went on his social media and spoke to black men saying how they need to get themselves together. Black men on Tik Tok talk about how other black men need to get their shit together."
She gets up from off the sofa and walks across the room to stand in front of the stove saying, "Hold up, did you eat?"
Squinting my eyes while cocking my head to the side, "Yeah— now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not that hungry."
Fei nodded her head saying, "Okay," a breath of air escaped from her mouth, "well it's getting late, and both have to get ready for tomorrow."
She walks straight ahead towards her room and I get up from the ottoman and begin to walk towards my bedroom door to open it. Just before she walks into her bedroom, "Good night, Kemi. God willing I'll see you tomorrow."
A chuckle escapes from my mouth, "Alright. Sweet dreams. God willing we will see each other tomorrow in the morning." Two small circles form on my cheeks and walk through the door of my bedroom, where I begin to get myself ready for the next day. I'll see you tomorrow." She nodes her head, heads into her room and closes the door. Twisting the door to let myself into my bedroom, I take my clothes off and hop into the shower. As I'm in the shower my mind goes over everything that has happened today, with the guy coming in twice to the cafe. He wants to see me again tomorrow, "Aaah!" I squeak quietly to myself in the shower. 'Even though it has been a while since Aquila and Quinton. Well, not that much since I saw Quinton one day ago and Aquila dying six months ago. Everything that has happened seems like a dream that will never end at all.' I think to myself.
Turning the faucet off, as the last few droplets of water fall onto my skin from the above shower head. Getting out of the shower grabbing my towel that's above the shower door and putting on my slippers. As I'm walking out of the bathroom, going into my room, thinking to myself 'I know I've promised Quinton I wasn't going to say anything to the police, but the only sense of justice that can be given to Aquila and to relieve this guilt I do have is to get justice. Putting Quinton behind bars.' I shut my bedroom door behind while taking off my shower cap and placing it on top of a pump.
'Perhaps that's not a good idea.' I walk over to my chair to sit down and begin my after shower grooming. Continuing to think to myself, 'Only because I promised him and it's been fucking six months. During those six months I've done nothing but feel guilty and feel that I should have done more. My mind is constantly locked in the past and not moving forward in my life, thinking about Aquila and what I could have done to help him further in taking down Quinton.' I put on my undergarments and grab my hemp oil. 'Being that I've already detached myself from him. He made me promise to not tell anyone about what happened months ago, but am I doing this for all the wrong reasons like wanting to officially move on and find a new love or just for revenge for his death. There was always a reason why he opted not to go to prison, Quinton says he has a lot of enemies on the inside.' Putting on my clothes. Perhaps there isn't that much to think about, I just don't want to go through with this only to have a personal agenda set in motion.' I get up from my chair, saying quietly to myself, "What to do?"
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